Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom into Today's Insane World - Softcover

An international consultant and lecturer in the field of stress management for more than twenty years, LORETTA LAROCHE is the author of Relax! You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left (more than 50,000 copies sold). Her three PBS specials were highly acclaimed, and her motivational videos have sold more than 200,000 copies. Also an adjunct faculty member for the Behavioral Institute of Medicine, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, she lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach.

In Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Loretta takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they’re filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. With Loretta’s contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca's old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stre